PATRICIA EVANS is an interpersonal communications specialist and the author of five books on the topic of verbal abuse. She is also a consultant, speaker and trainer, offering workshops and information on the topic the subject of verbal abuse, naming and defining verbally abusive relationships via her first book. She has spoken on the devastating effect of this “secret form of control” on more than two hundred radio shows, and 20 national television programs, the Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN and News Talk. A Discussion on the book “The Verbally Abusive Relationship”